Although there was a lot of physics going on in the form of sports this weekend (soccer, wrestling, basketball, swimming, and diving), I decided to focus on a very simple type of physics that took place on Friday night. Earlier this weekend, my friends and I went to Senor Frogs. While I was looking over my pictures, I noticed that there was physics right at our table. As we sat down and ate, our bodies exerted a force on the bench. The bench exerted an equal and opposite force on us as we sat down. This demonstrates Newton's third law of motion; whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts and equal and opposite force on the first. Physics is in the most common places. In fact, you are probably experiencing Newtons third law right now.
1 comment:
I went there!
It's cool how probably the simplest idea that night (sitting at the table) is the physics concept you picked.
hah. Interesante!
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